People v. . Backus’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably Tri-State Employment Services, Inc. v. Mountbatten Surety Co. (2002), Richardson v. . County of Steuben (1919)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 35 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on City Nat'l Bk. of Poughkeepsie v. . Phelps · Exeter Bank v. Rogers · Union Bank v. Ridgely · Brown v. Lattimore · Knox v. Herod
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he contracts of sureties are to be construed like other contracts so as to give effect to the intention of the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.